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Improvement in Capacity and Efficiency of Network Storage by Configuring Hard Disk Drives on Nodes of a LAN
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 19 - Number 3 |
| Year of Publication: 2011 |
| Authors: K.N.Honwadkar, T.R.Sontakke |
10.5120/2343-3063
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K.N.Honwadkar, T.R.Sontakke . Improvement in Capacity and Efficiency of Network Storage by Configuring Hard Disk Drives on Nodes of a LAN. International Journal of Computer Applications. 19, 3 ( April 2011), 15-21. DOI=10.5120/2343-3063
Abstract
Storage on Network has, always, been a key feature of the success of the network design. Various methods are in practice. Two techniques are suggested in this paper. Disk Clustering and a technique to have Uniform namespace KINDFS is a distributed file storage system designed to provide cost-effective storage service utilizing idle disk space on workstation clusters. The system responsibilities are evenly distributed across a group of collaborating workstations; the proposed architecture provides improved performance, reliability and scalability. Workstation uptime data varies from system to system. KINDFS prototype implementation and measurement of its performance is suggested. Preliminary results indicate that KINDFS performance is comparable to that of commonly used distributed file systems, such as NFS, Samba and Windows 2000 Server.
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